Sundar Pichai made more money in one year than you would in a lifetime

So many zeroes, we can't even count

Virat Kohli and his boys got a raise (and they want more) the cast of Game of Thronesgot a raise (making some of them the highest paid actors in television) and we now have news that so did Sundar Pichai.

So while you were looking at your payslips with mixed feelings, the top boss at Google walked home with almost $200 million in compensation last year. And oh that’s double of what he was making the year before that. That SMS from your bank looks kinda sad now, doesn’t it?

The 44-year-old India-born CEO of Google made about $650,000 in 2016, which is technically less than what he was making the year before. But it’s the stock options that made all the difference. Pichai was awarded $198.7 million, which was almost double the stock award of $99.8 million that he received in 2015.

Credit where it’s due, Google’s sales from YouTube and its advertising revenues have gone up under Pichai’s reign and the investments he made in cloud computing, hardware and machine learning are beginning to pay off too. And since stock of Alphabet, Google’s parent company has done so spectacularly well, it makes Pichai’s new salary look like loose change to his bosses.